Benefits and Risks of Using Smart Pumps to Reduce Medication Error Rates: A Systematic Review

Drug Safety

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1011-1020

  Ohashi, Kumiko ^a   Dalleur, Olivia ^a,b   Dykes, Patricia C ^a   Bates, David W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DOPAMINE; HEPARIN; NORADRENALIN; VANCOMYCIN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; PATIENT SAFETY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 84912533246     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40264-014-0232-1     Document Type: Review

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